Smokey Bear Says Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires Vintage 1950 Poster
by Peter Ogden
Title
Smokey Bear Says Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires Vintage 1950 Poster
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Painting - Chromolithograph
Description
This is a restored copy of a vintage "Smokey Says" "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires" depicting Smokey Bear with his forest fire fighting shovel and four illustrations of ways to prevent forest fires and wildfires: "Crush It", "Break It", Drown It" and "Use It" [ashtray].
This illustration was created circa 1950 by James Hansen* for the US Federal Government's United States Forest Service fire prevention education campaign.
Smokey Bear was a three month old five pound American black bear cub who was discovered in the early spring of 1950 after the Capitan Gap fire, a large forest fire that raged through the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico. Smokey had gone up a tree to flee the inferno, but his paws and rear legs had been burned. Firefighters from New Mexico and Texas who came to fight the conflagration rescued Smokey from the tree that he was hiding in. Soon after his rescue Smokey was nursed back to health and became the inspiration for the famous US Forest Service fire prevention Smokey Bear campaign beloved by all.
*Public domain image created on contract by paid US federal government US Forest Service employee James Hansen.
The Fine Art America logo does not appear on the final product.
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August 30th, 2021
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